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    Use "cane" in a sentence

    cane example sentences

    cane


    caned


    canes


    caning


    1. He'd always wanted to be a monster since he was little, but Peter had gotten his head beat with the reality stick one too many times (that's what Ma called her favorite cane) and he knew a panhandler was all he'd ever grow up to be


    2. She went into the closet and came out with a large wooden cane


    3. He swung it around on his left shoulder and leaned on the cane she had given him


    4. In the case of granulated sugar the sugar crystals that are formed after the cane juice is treated with the fumes of burning sulphur or heated with bisulphide of lime, are sterile and devitalized


    5. Tarak came to her side and followed her into her private chambers, clicking his cane on the marble floor


    6. When he was little, Harry learned quickly the techniques his father employed in fashioning cane rods


    7. He carried two cane poles in one hand and a tackle box in the other


    8. fish while sitting, even with the old cane poles Roman had brought


    9. My concern is how can you have made deposits in the amounts you did over the last ten years, when a cane rod sells for $12, even with your considerable volumes?” Harry posed, once his own clear grasp of his family's finances had been made certain to his benefactor


    10. When they had walked some little way from the lanes of the town, Harry adjusted her grip on the stout cane pole and they continued further a little ways

    11. A ROCKING CHAIR WITH FADED PAINT , CHAIRS WITH SLATS AND CANE


    12. She had come out of her vardo when Mama had clapped and she had walked straight to her seat at the table, aided only with her walking cane, despite the obvious fact that she was totally blind


    13. before I fetch my cane


    14. Grabbing an old dusty cane I found lying on the floor, I started to prod the man forward with it


    15. The old woman snapped at me suddenly, causing me to jump backwards and drop the cane


    16. I gave the woman freak a good hard bump with the cane and she snapped at me over her shoulder, but didn't stop her forward momentum


    17. Or, if a golfer sprained a knee or ankle, which is highly possible, then the one iron could be used as a cane, allowing the golfer to limp back to the clubhouse or the 19th hole for a little refreshment


    18. I kept on going until I cane to a quite part of the battlefield and there I was rewarded I looked through my sight as a flare shot up in the distance and I saw the two of them bending down and relieving corpses of their belongings and shoving them in small packs


    19. Then I saw a striking woman with grey hair in a kind of chignon come along leaning on a silver topped cane she stopped close by and I looked taking in her hair which was a lovely silver colour and not grey and her neck and head had more than an aristocratic look to them


    20. Katie was busy sewing something for her hope chest, so Carmen grabbed her cane pole and some liver from the refrigerator, and strolled down to the pond

    21. Grandpa will finish it, and five minutes later he’ll cane himself past his watching dogs, and into the house to grab another one


    22. Then, he’ll get up, empty can in one hand, cane in the other, and he will go inside to place that empty one with the other empty ones on the counter


    23. with a thick sugar cane straw


    24. After an entire year of treatment, his condition had improved and he was able to walk without a cane, although he had a slight limp and his hand was a bit bent


    25. American economic interests especially sugar cane plantation owners were the ones who overthrew the Kingdom of Hawaii


    26. I had graduated to the use of a cane (plus the leg braces) instead of the walker, but it was very precarious balancing on the stool before I had to jump up on the table


    27. As I was still in leg braces and using a cane, I decided to enter through the sheriff’s entrance rather than the main door for less hassle


    28. I was determined to prove to myself that this was an isolated incident and that if I dropped my cane again, the results would be different


    29. After positioning myself (I wanted to be able to pick up the cane more easily if it came to that), I dropped the cane two more times in that store, once in a grocery store, and once more in another department store


    30. He found comfort in the normalcy of ox-drawn carts loaded with produce, picked coffee beans, sugar cane, and women with bundles balanced on their heads weaving their way through the crowd

    31. In Cuba, he toured sugar cane cooperatives owned and operated by the workers, in cooperation with the government


    32. Then, from the first door, another man emerged followed by a gray old man, tottering with a cane as rapidly as his legs could manage to join the wailing mass on the lawn


    33. Anyhow, I swatted the bastard with my cane, but he hit back and we fell to the ground, fighting like a couple of arthritic dogs


    34. A feeble old man, his weight balanced between legs and cane, stands on the kilometer-long pier and watches bubbles rise to the surface of the water surrounding piling number one hundred thirty-nine


    35. His face concealed by a hood, his form leaning heavily on a cane, but I knew him


    36. When the first one got to a certain height and distance, I figured it was a stalk, or cane of some plant material


    37. cane and threatened to lash him if he did not move on instantly


    38. Starting with the paintings and books I’d brought from Canada, I added natural materials readily available: grasses in pots, driftwood I’d collected, beautiful stones, cane furniture and African grass mats bought for next to nothing by the roadside


    39. Textiles, pottery, dyeing, sugar production from cane, and horticulture all fell within the scope of Islam at its zenith


    40. Yquingare ushered me through a large room containing cane furniture and into an interior courtyard open to the air with many blooming flowers in pots of soil

    41. He had swapped his crutches for a cane, and now he leaned on it and asked her, “Are you okay?”


    42. ” Noah went off as fast as he could, his cane thumping loudly on the floor


    43. One cousin brought sugar canes, because he remembered when Manda was visiting as a little girl, she had loved to suck on cane sticks


    44. “I no longer need the cane, though I’m not quite ready to start jogging again


    45. with his ripe cane in full fury


    46. He walks around with a cane and served in Vietnam


    47. Jam simply consists of fresh fruit boiled with a half to two-thirds its weight of white cane sugar until the mixture jellies


    48. Adrinius clasped the wooden cane between his fingers attached to his right hand as he brought his arm across his chest


    49. She sighted a woman, whom she believed to be at least eighty years old, standing with a cane


    50. increased in volume, Monica could see the person hitting a cane against the pavement











































    1. Though he was a bully, we felt sorry for him when he was caned at


    2. The bully used to pick on little boys until he was caught and caned


    3. The same hall where Theo had been caned for disrupting the Sunday service by killing the iguana in the school church


    4. The police just caned and arrested


    5. The ordinance is never once caned a sacrifice in the New Testament


    6. Nothing, only a rickety caned chair, very old


    7. An armed Security Guard was sitting in a caned wooden chair directly blocking their path from the gold section into the Fed’s main garage


    1. Description of Disease: Canes turn brown from tips, plants most affected in colder climates, right after winter protection is removed, not a disease itself but can led to disease attack


    2. Man and wife tended their plants, made sure that their supporting canes were securely tied, weeded and hoed beds, watered and pricked out, and through their horticultural therapy they began the process of contemplation, of imagining their lives lived forever in the shadow of the hole


    3. wife tended their plants, made sure that their supporting canes were


    4. eclectic collection of walking sticks, canes and hiking poles, and then


    5. out candy canes, and even the big pine by the clock tower was draped in gold and


    6. man who’d have nothing to do with canes and cudgels


    7. The green canes made a refuge for numbers of small animals, and if properly taken in hand, would probably have provided some lord of the forest to add to the spoils


    8. fleshy, and carried gold-headed canes which they swung very high at


    9. So the Aldermen all went back, swinging their gold-headed canes, and


    10. The Aldermen shook their gold-headed canes at him, and the people

    11. "What shall you do with all those candy canes? Here's the perfect solution that makes a delightful salad and is attractive on the table


    12. When he finally composed himself he said, “Yo dude, those are actually elderly ladies with walking canes and shopping bags, maybe its Miguels grandma?” Dans’ tone of voice and facial expressions were so sincere, I bought every utterance


    13. The mob which was now accompanied by the police force had burst in with their weapons, some with longer blades and some with wooden canes and some with guns


    14. What was used to whip boys? Rods? Canes? No, that would be too brutal


    15. The sails were made of slatted canes that could be reefed in horizontal folds


    16. One cousin brought sugar canes, because he remembered when Manda was visiting as a little girl, she had loved to suck on cane sticks


    17. “May you get the crap beat out of you with canes and walkers by a


    18. It was like stepping into the 1920’s when men wore black tuxes, monocles with top hats and canes


    19. Colonel Golyakov formed a line of searchers armed with long sticks, canes and rods and they systematically moved forward prodding the snow for buried people


    20. What about the sign on the highway that says, “Slow senior citizens?” They may not be fast but how will you feel when and if you get to be their age? Be careful or they’ll beat you with their canes

    21. The former are cautious, walk with canes, avoiding stairs and hilly terrain


    22. He ruled and harassed them if they protest him; he too enjoyed ragging the newcomer students in the school, so what, he always got punishments and harsh canes, but in vein


    23. “How many canes does Dana have?” Mary says


    24. A man is sitting in a barber shop reading a newspaper with a headline that reads: DIANE D'S MOM FURIOUSLY CANES THE DIANETTES FOR THE SAVAGE BITING AND THE SAVAGE ATTACK ON MADILYN LEWIS AND HUSBAND!


    25. She further surprised Pierre in that respect, proving to be incredibly knowledgeable about mechanical sciences and also being highly skilled at mechanical repairs, diagnosing and then repairing a problem with the gear mechanism of the crushing rollers used to crush sugar canes cut down by Pierre’s workers


    26. ’ They were replaced with candy canes, elves, and the advertisements using Santa Clause


    27. The nice man leans under the counter, and returns with two “candy canes


    28. canes and fire, and by animate objects such as humans and


    29. Regarding candy canes, the Christmas tour booklet records, “Legend has it that the choirmaster at Cologne Cathedral


    30. shrub with perennial roots and prickly canes

    31. Heads of social organizations, institutions, the concept of a Supreme head-being: God, the making of bread by cutting off the heads of grain, the head of a bed, the head of a burning cigar or cigarette: knocked of as ashes: getting ‘ahead’, the concept of progress as the most important thing in life, competition: getting ahead of your competition, the concept of competitive elimination: ‘heads will fall’, ‘if you are not up to snuff’, snuff: sneezing your head off by taking a pinch of snuff to clear your head, giving ‘head’ sexually, warheads, bombs, firearms, bullets, artillery: any weapon that shoots something: slingshots, arrows, spears, rocks, the heading of a page, a header in grammar, the heading on a page, the heading on a sentence, the heading on a paragraph, somersaults, head-over-heels, crowns, the crowns of Corinthian pillars, pillars do not have heads: all pillars are decapitated, all segments of pillars: all decapitated columns, the idea of decapitating pillars of the community, the idea of dethroning kings, the eating of fruit like grapes, apples, etc; all edible things like coconuts, papaya,, unpeeling the head of a banana and eating it, all vegetables in the shape of a head like onions, cabbage, lettuce, the picking of leaves, the picking of fruits, the picking of beans: all drug foods the picking of spices: creating every single drug we call food, ice cream cones, all ice cream in the shape of a decapitated head, all food portions in the shape of a head, all toppings on all food, decapitated flowers, the Rose Parade: hundreds of millions of decapitated heads of flowers, all fire with flames that are decapitated, all fireworks, the crushing of spices, the picking of decapitated heads like mushrooms, eating nuts, cracking their shell, eggs, corks and bungs used to seal barrels and bottles, the tops of bottles, the sealing and taking off the tops of bottles, jars; all tools that have a head, the head of a hammer, nails, the head of a nail, pounding the head of a nail, the cutting off of the heads of large trees before decapitating them, cutting off the heads of animals to kill them and eat them, all mathematics: the counting of heads, or I’s and adding them up, the using of tools to create decapitated segments, all sports, all balls used in sports, the hitting of all balls, ping-pong, badminton, bowling, bowling pins: the decapitation of bowling pins by a bowling ball, kingpins, kings, jewelry, stickpins with diamond heads on them, canes, walking sticks with metal heads, staffs, any artifact denoting being the head of something, scepters, globes, flyswatters, turbans, musical instruments that blare out sound: decapitating it; using holes in wood and brass instruments to decapitate the natural sound into a shorter wavelength, all fretted and unfretted musical instruments, pressing on a fret to make the note shorter, like a violin or guitar, drums, drumsticks, cymbals, the heads of shoelaces, the detached mentality called the ego: decapitated and disconnected from all the other needs and energy flows of a human being, the concept of life after death as a detached form of spirit, the structure of all hierarchy, all capitalist companies and corporate bodies being ruled and controlled by detached heads of business, the capitalization of letters at the head of a word or sentence or paragraph: especially in ancient sacred Christian texts: where the first capital letter is huge, the eating of fish by decapitating them first, the use of all drugs, narcotics wine, coffee, pills: to create a disconnection between the brain and the rest of the human being, the concept of anesthesia, using drugs to numb the brain or prevent it from feeling the body’s pain, all cultures that value stoicism, macho pigs who cannot love, the concept of the hero as a stone face refusing to face the truth, refusing to feel love, refusing to feel any emotion whatsoever, refusing to cry, the stone carvings of all the ancient Kings, the decapitated carvings of all Kings on coins, the insane idea of all kings ruling by only using their decapitated heads as decapitated coins to spread their authority, all stone busts, plaster busts, the stone faces of all heroes in modern media who refuse to feel human emotion, ping-pong, the computer game: pong, King Kong: the King cut off from State: King Kong falling off the Empire State building: all the video games that are based upon decapitated heads decapitating other heads, which are all based on the old arcade pinball machines that shot decapitated heads that bounced around scoring points hitting and scoring on as many stationary targets of decapitated heads as possible, the decapitation of hair… haircuts, shaving daily, cutting your nails, the idea of assassination as a political tool, the concept of character assassination used in all human societies to cut off people who are thought too uppity or stick out too much, and do not conform… the detached form of observation that only use instruments for the eye: microscopes, telescopes, star-gazing, stamp collecting, the collections of anything from bric-a-brac to gold coins, portraits, still pictures of decapitated heads, cameos, brooches, belt buckles, shoe buckles, still photographs of decapitated heads, talking heads, heads on celluloid talking, heads on screens, moving pictures of talking heads, the idea of a leader as a talking head, all pictures on money of decapitated heads, mouthpieces, microphones, the idea of one person speaking for another, speechwriters, lawyers, politicians, amplified music coming out of a loudspeaker, amplifiers of singing-talking heads, the idea of doing nothing but talking as being the only form of social activity allowed in polite societies, the heads of shoelaces, all knots, topknots, tying hair into knots, the idea of cutting up sounds into words, into letters, into decapitated abstract symbols of meaning separated from thee body of the meaning by segmentation, all segmented forms of tool-use, all tools that segment things into decapitated heads, all decapitated forms of awareness-thinking-feeling, all forms of specialization, all segmented ways of living-doing-seeing, decapitating the natural order of things into decapitated insane pieces: decapitating a family into age groups, decapitating a community into alienated isolated individuals, all mass butchery of living animals by cutting off their heads, morse code, ticker tape, all digitalization of signals into meaningless decapitated codes, the invention of the glass tube: the first decapitated head that could mechanically receive and send energy through nerves called wires, the invention of the transistor: the first sold decapitated head that could send and receive signals, the invention of microchips: tiny decapitated heads with their own tiny brain circuits that could perform more complicated functions than the first huge glass-blown giants called vacuum tubes: because there was nothing inside them, all glass blowing, blowing up molten glass with hot air and then decapitating it to make a glass vase or bottle, all containers from bottles, jars, gourds, ladles, to pitchers and teapots with decapitated lids, all containers, chests, holding treasure, wealth, valuables, all spices and decapitated herbs, all furniture made from decapitating trees, all houses made into decapitated heads where the people living inside them only use their heads and not their hearts or bodies, the steam engine: decapitating steam to explode out in puffs of decapitated destroyed power, all wheels, all round wheels used in machines, all watches, with dials pointing at the decapitated numbers of a disconnected circle, the decapitation of all circles into wedges, pie slices, the invention of the wedge, the invention of the axe as a metal decapitated head to stick on a wooden decapitated piece of branch, all idols, all icons, all figureheads, all abstract symbols representing the head, the pinnacle, the top, the apex, the height of anything, all hierarchical awareness and structures that deem the head as the most valuable, the best, the most noble, etc; Jack-in the Box, all boxes, everything that is put into a box or container, FedEx: the obsession of transporting boxes and parcels, the song; ‘Pop goes the Weasel’, all mass-produced goods that are boxed and shipped, the detachment of specialized labor and work, the creation of holes, digging, all mining, piston heads, engine heads, everything that is called the ‘head’ of something, the froth on the top of a glass of beer,: to be blown away, the use of all zeros and ones: as in Japanese Zeros decapitating American ships, zeros and ones being created and then decapitated inside computers, the use of all zeros and ones in mathematics, scalping, the taking of heads, the shrinking of heads: which the computer microchip is the latest evolution of, …


    32. All they are able to do is crawl on crutches and canes from the car to the restaurant and back… and then go home, lie down, and watch TV


    33. They leaned on their gold-headed canes,


    34. Berries that are perennials: fruits and vegetables that are perennials must have their 1st year growth cut, while preserving the 2nd year canes because it is the 2nd year growth of the 2nd year canes which produce the overabundance of fruit which civilized humans invented to grow more food than they needed by killing the 1sr growth: forcing the 2nd growth into overpopulation


    35. along with canes, ropes, belts and sticks


    36. HATS CAPES AND CANES


    37. at the eyes; a sterling silver umbrella stand with an assortment of canes and staffs from all


    38. Bald distinguished men with gold-headed canes strolled down the crimson avenues between the stalls, and only broke from intercourse with the boxes when the lights went down, and the conductor, first bowing to the Queen, next to the bald-headed men, swept round on his feet and raised his wand


    39. His oration was so powerful that the audience screamed in agreement, waving hats and canes


    40. She was very stooped, and walked with two canes, but her large head still jutted forward assertively on her bony shoulders

    41. "It is a fast-growing plant, but it is surely inconceivable that this body could have been here while the canes grew to be twenty feet in length


    42. How else could he come by his broken bones, and how could he have been stuck through by these canes with their points so high above our heads?"


    43. My God! what a nightmare the whole thing is! You remember the great bristle of sharp canes down below where we found the skeleton of the American? Well, that is just under ape-town, and that's the jumpin'-off place of their prisoners


    44. one the poor devils have to jump, and the game is to see whether they are merely dashed to pieces or whether they get skewered on the canes


    45. Four of the Indians jumped, and the canes went through 'em like knittin' needles through a pat of butter


    46. No wonder we found that poor Yankee's skeleton with the canes growin' between his ribs


    47. It was a man who walked inside a framework made of bent canes so that he was enclosed on all sides in a bell-shaped cage


    48. Into this opening several bamboo canes had been inserted and the other ends of these canes were in contact with conical clay funnels which collected the gas bubbling up through the mud of the geyser


    49. Senior citizens with canes and hearing aids and bifocals


    50. But I’m not sure I have the stomach to be his submissive – deep down, it’s the canes and whips that put me off










    1. “You liar,” said he, still shivering, “You are afraid that the kid would start caning you, isn’t it?”


    2. He felt like giving the car a bit of a caning but didn’t want to until it was properly run in


    3. fourteen years, with or without caning


    4. imprisonment for two years, with or without caning


    5. and shall also be punished with caning with not less than


    6. caning of one hundred lashes and in addition, two years


    7. But what most impressed the gathering was the story of the caning and his skill in sabotaging the teacher’s car


    8. The Leprechauns got a nice cheer when they fi nally ran around Lloyd, who was still caning the paper


    9. The stems of sugar cane plants are so rigid that they have been used since time immemorial to build thatch houses with and as punishment rods to beat slaves, women and children with… The practice of caning servants or children still exists today in some parts of the world


    10. Beresford called it but the modern God's Englishman calls it caning on the breech

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    Synonyms for "cane"

    cane flog lambast lambaste bar shank handle pole shaft axle stem

    "cane" definitions

    a stick that people can lean on to help them walk


    a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane


    a stiff switch used to hit students as punishment


    beat with a cane